Continuous monitoring like that is very important because otherwise it’s hard to find out how your hosting really performs. While you may notice some issues when visiting your website, you can’t do it every minute all days and night long. And this is what can be done by the automatic performance monitoring that I run using a professional web application monitoring service monitis.com.

By the way, the best hosting I’ve ever met during my researches and managing websites (I’ve been using more than one hundred hosts) are on my recommended hosting list.

I determine the best hosts by a number of factors among them performance (reliability, uptime, speed) is just a part of it. Very important factors are also customer support, ethics of hosting companies, their reputation among their current and former clients and professional hosting community.

Live charts displaying the current performance of hosting

I’ve moved this section for more convenience and better browsing experience. So, please visit this page to see the interactive charts. The charts display the hosting performance in real time (uptime and speed of my test websites).

Hosting speed history tables (monthly average)

Hosting speed is measured as full page load time of my test websites hosted with these hosts.(The less value, the better. Very fast host is below 2.5 seconds) (The greener, the better. Yellow is below the highest standards. Orange is worse. Red is the worst.)

Satisfactory Apdex history tables (monthly average)

(The value means how much time speed was faster than 2.5 seconds. The more Apdex value, the better. Max 100%. Very good host benchmark – 99%) (The greener, the better. Yellow is below the highest standards. Orange is worse. Red is the worst.)

By the way, here’s a disclosure: There are some affiliate links on this page. In other words, I get paid if you click on the links and make a purchase. All such links open in new window/tab; no software/program will be installed to your computer. (This is a standard notice required by hosting companies.) Please note that although all hosts mentioned in this article are well-established and considered to be very good, I highly recommend not all of them. My recommended hosts are here.